topic Workstation 17 Windows 11 22h2 host Guest degradation in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions

Workstation 17 Windows 11 22h2 host Guest degradation

kasper — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 18:25:24 GMT

AMD 7735HS Windows 11 22h2 with Intel I225-v NIC using workstation 17.01 on the host.

Windows guest has continual blips and freezes when playing audio and/or transferring

network files between host and guest. Appears the I225-V may be an issue

along with the silly side-channel mitigations. Would some kind soul point me

at fixing this? (using latest drivers and updates).

Re: Workstation 17 Windows 11 22h2 host Guest degradation

mark-reijerkerk — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 22:59:20 GMT

Hey there,

Good that I read your message.

At least I am not the only one.

Windows 11 preview 25346:

MB: Z790

CPU: Intel core 13g i7

Video from CPU

Memory: 64G Ram

Storage WD SSD 1G, Sabrent Rocket 4

HD WD RAID0 2 X 4Tb

VM 12 thread, 16Gb, Windows 11 latest PRO (no prev) dedicated SSD.

But Workstation is not performing at all.

I can't pin point it at the moment, tonight I will swittch to Linux and see what the difference in performance is.

I Will be back

Re: Workstation 17 Windows 11 22h2 host Guest degradation

kasper — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 20:27:29 GMT

The Windows 11 22H2 host is dead meat - Workstation now has this silly side-channel mitigation and it involves having some form of hyper-v on the host. My vague understanding is this happens because of Windows host device drivers and MS trying to 'secure' them. MS is notorious for having a history of device driver implementations going back to the CPU ring 0/1/2/3 thingy and trying to accommodate everyone. Hopefully MS and VMWare and work thru all this sillyness.

Re: Workstation 17 Windows 11 22h2 host Guest degradation

kasper — Tue, 30 May 2023 20:36:58 GMT

This is what helped me. On a Windows host change the 'power options' to high. You can fine tune these settings while still fixing some issues with guests.